For anyone looking for a cheap home made jerky method that can be done in regular bog standard oven, try this pork teriyaki jerky method. It’s super simple, and requires no equipment.

https://youtu.be/NGMIIGpo5Zw?si=MpI41_o9we-3ej89

Yeah, the trick with both liquid smoke and fish sauce is to use way less than you think you need. You’ll notice I’m only putting a teaspoon in about a full cup of marinade, and that’s enough to give a very distinctly smoky flavour. You can easily cut that back to a half or quarter teaspoon if you prefer it more subtle.

For fish sauce, I’m going to start out with the same kind of measures. I’ll probably go with 1tsp and then adjust up or down from there. If you can taste the fish sauce in the finished product you’ve used too much. And yes, brand absolutely matters. I only ever use Squid brand fish sauce personally.

I’ve got a big old bowl of freshly cut eye of round from my local butcher marinading in the fridge right now. Tomorrow it’ll go in the dehydrator (I’m lucky enough to have one built into my oven. I’m also very lucky to have a local butcher. Sadly not something most people have access to).

My current marinade is as follows:

• ¼ cup dark soy
• ¼ cup light soy
• ¼ cup water
• 2tbsp maple syrup
• 2tbsp worcestershire sauce
• 1tsp liquid smoke
• LOTS of cracked black pepper

Optionally, add red pepper flake for a little spice. You can also up the amount of worcestershire if you like.

For my next batch I want to try adding a little fish sauce and MSG to really up the umami.

Also, I really like how making your own jerky allows you to control the grain pattern. I don’t mind a little chew to mine, but my wife likes it to come apart nice and easy so for her I cut across the grain. I have a vacuum sealer that I got on clearance, so I’ll batch up little packets of jerky for her to take into the field. It’s so much better than the jerky she gets in her issued rations.

Sadly, finding the time and energy to do stuff like this can be a challenge. I’m fortunate in that I work from home, so I can throw this stuff in the oven before my day starts and then just pull it when it’s done.

It is terrifying that this is happening in our country, and that our likely next prime minister supports it.

“More than the entire world’s GDP” is just a massive understatement here.

Let’s put this number in context. The highest estimate for the number of planets in our galaxy is 8 trillion. If we terraformed, settled and developed every single one of those planets, to the point where every last one had the same total GDP as Earth today, it would still not be enough to pay this fine.

How far short would we be? Would we need to settle and develop two entire galaxies worth of planets? Ten? A hundred? A thousand?!

Nope. Twenty million. We would need to settle TWENTY. FUCKING. MILLION. GALAXIES. Each containing 8 trillion planets. Each planet containing about 8 billion humans.

That’s how comically, ludicrously, impossibly large this fine is.

Well, can’t say fairer than that.

Yeah, I did try to stress that just because I can’t envision a use for it, doesn’t mean it shouldn’t exist. I’m totally OK with that. My question was more “Am I the idiot here for not being able to see what the use is?”

Both of the recent Japanese Godzilla movies (Shin Godzilla and Godzilla Minus One) actually do an excellent job of neutralizing the military factor.

Conventional infantry tactics from 1945 certainly don’t work. We haven’t fought like that in forever.

Modern infantry tactics would be “Sit inside my nice warm armoured vehicle while the gunner shreds everything with a 25mm autocannon.” And I think that would work just fine against zombies.

Also any competent military shouldn’t have the slightest difficulty getting headshots on a slow moving target that isn’t trying to evade or use cover.

I mean it with 1000% seriousness when I say that it took an actor of Tim Curry’s calibre to let that pause drag out that long.

They could start by upping wages. It takes a year or more of the most brutal training for can imagine just to get into some of the trades in the military, and they get paid peanuts for it. Some of that training can literally kill if you fuck up. Yet there are service members living in tents or out of their cars because they can’t afford rent.

Obscurity is not the same thing as security.

Yup.

https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/billionaires-emit-more-carbon-pollution-90-minutes-average-person-does-lifetime

You know those can be self hosted, right?

And yes, by all means just set up your own Wireguard or OpenVPN access if that’s what you prefer. You do you bud.

Also, all these people are climate wreckers.

The average billionaire emits more CO2 in 90 minutes than you will in your entire life.

That’s precisely my point. This is price fixing, very obviously so, but it’s almost impossible to actually prevent because at some point as long as people in an industry can share information and have an incentive not to undercut each other, behaviour that is indistinguishable from price fixing - even if it could not legally be defined as such - will inevitably emerge. When I say this is price fixing, that’s not a legal judgement, just an observation of what the behaviour clearly is, regardless of how it would be legally defined. If it looks like a duck, etc. I’m going to call it price fixing because that is the ultimate effect that it has.

Hence my point that ultimately the only solution to this is aggressive rent controls.

But that implies you do have your SSH open to the world, right?

The way I access my private web interfaces remotely is through something like Netmaker, Tailscale or Zerotier. Same thing for SSH. No way in hell am I opening 22 on my router.

I’ll admit, as neat as this is, I’m a little unclear on the use case? Are there really situations where it’s easier to get a command prompt than it is to open a webpage?

The CLI side I can see more use for since that does expose a lot of actions to bash scripting, which could be neat. But on the whole I can’t say I’ve ever really found myself thinking “Man, I really wish I had a UI for managing Radarr, a program that already includes a really good UI.”

I know it’s shitty to hate on something just because you’re not the target for it. That’s not my intent, it’s more that I’m just fascinated by the question of how anyone has a burning need for this? It feels like there must be something I’m missing here.

YieldStar is basically an outsourced price fixing scheme. The app assembles data on average rents in an area from across all the different landlords who use the app, and then recommends the “optimum” price for rentals in the area. “Optimum” of course means “The highest rent this market will bear.”

The users will, of course, claim that this isn’t collusion because they’re not directly communicating with each other, and it’s not price fixing because “they’re just following the recommendations of the app.” The whole thing is just criminal conspiracy outsourced to a third party, and the reality is that it’s pretty much impossible to stop stuff like this from happening somehow. This is exactly why aggressive rent controls are essential to protecting renters.

I’m a random civilian and I’ve actually gone through more vetting than Pollievre. And this fucking asshole thinks he deserves to be Prime Minister. Absolutely insane that anyone takes him seriously.